Superpowers in a Can: A Visual Journey through Energy Drink Posts on Social Media
This research addresses the problem of how energy drink brands such as Red Bull, Monster Energy and V Energy communicate to their target audience of young people aged 18-30 on Instagram and Pinterest. To address this a qualitative netnography was conducted asking 8 participants to choose the images...
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2019
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| description | This research addresses the problem of how energy drink brands such as Red Bull, Monster Energy and V Energy communicate to their target audience of young people aged 18-30 on Instagram and Pinterest. To address this a qualitative netnography was conducted asking 8 participants to choose the images that they find engaging. The results was 138 individual images gathered which was further reconstructed in visual storylines and into brand archetypes to demonstrate the psychological drivers in play when they interpret them. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-817682020-11-27T07:01:51Z Superpowers in a Can: A Visual Journey through Energy Drink Posts on Social Media Monk, David This research addresses the problem of how energy drink brands such as Red Bull, Monster Energy and V Energy communicate to their target audience of young people aged 18-30 on Instagram and Pinterest. To address this a qualitative netnography was conducted asking 8 participants to choose the images that they find engaging. The results was 138 individual images gathered which was further reconstructed in visual storylines and into brand archetypes to demonstrate the psychological drivers in play when they interpret them. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81768 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Monk, David Superpowers in a Can: A Visual Journey through Energy Drink Posts on Social Media |
| title | Superpowers in a Can: A Visual Journey through Energy Drink Posts on Social Media |
| title_full | Superpowers in a Can: A Visual Journey through Energy Drink Posts on Social Media |
| title_fullStr | Superpowers in a Can: A Visual Journey through Energy Drink Posts on Social Media |
| title_full_unstemmed | Superpowers in a Can: A Visual Journey through Energy Drink Posts on Social Media |
| title_short | Superpowers in a Can: A Visual Journey through Energy Drink Posts on Social Media |
| title_sort | superpowers in a can: a visual journey through energy drink posts on social media |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81768 |